Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-10 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Carl, I'm pretty sure he wants to use the *baseline* of the characters to align relative to the staff line. Ah, OK. Looking at the examples he's provided I see that that's exactly what he wants. So you can't use tab-note-head::print, since it centers the *total extent* of the

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-10 Thread Choan Gálvez
Hi, On 5/10/12 14:33 , David Nalesnik wrote: Hi Carl, I'm pretty sure he wants to use the *baseline* of the characters to align relative to the staff line. Ah, OK. Looking at the examples he's provided I see that that's exactly what he wants. So you can't use

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-10 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Choan, This looks very nice and it's _exactly_ what I had in mind :) Glad to hear it! But that's my opinion, I'm not the OP -- Christopher Webster is. Oops--seems I got lost... -David ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-10 Thread Christopher Webster
This looks very nice and it's _exactly_ what I had in mind :) But that's my opinion, I'm not the OP -- Christopher Webster is. Best. ... and said Christopher Webster is at work just now, and trying to concentrate reasonably conscientiously on it! But I promise to try this when I'm home

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-10 Thread Christopher Webster
I think it looks absolutely splendid. Thank you all very much. /Christopher/. On 2012-05-10 16:11, Choan Gálvez wrote: \new TabStaff \with { tablatureFormat = #fret-letter-tablature-format \override TabNoteHead #'whiteout = ##f } { \override TabNoteHead #'font-shape =

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-09 Thread Christopher Webster
From:Choan Gálvez Subject: Re: Adjustment to tablature output Date:Wed, 09 May 2012 01:23:26 +0200 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 On 5/8/12 10:48 , Christopher Webster wrote: Is there a recommended way

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-09 Thread Choan Gálvez
On 5/9/12 09:34 , Christopher Webster wrote: From: Choan Gálvez Subject: Re: Adjustment to tablature output Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 01:23:26 +0200 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 On 5/8/12 10:48 , Christopher Webster wrote

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-09 Thread Christopher Webster
On 2012-05-09 16:01, Choan Gálvez wrote: . . . Many thanks for the advice and the link. In the meantime, I searched this list's archives more carefully and found a solution which works perfectly. Posted by Neil Puttock on Fri, 8 Apr 2011 20:40:16 +0100 and archived at

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/9/12 8:01 AM, Choan Gálvez choan.gal...@gmail.com wrote: Nice. But... it still results in the same ugly (to me) vertical alignments: letters with ascendant strokes look nice, letters with descendant strokes are aligned by its bottom, letters without ascendants or descendants leave a gap

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-09 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: On 5/9/12 8:01 AM, Choan Gálvez choan.gal...@gmail.com wrote: Nice. But... it still results in the same ugly (to me) vertical alignments: letters with ascendant strokes look nice, letters with descendant strokes

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-09 Thread Christopher Webster
Thank you, David. I must preface my remarks by saying that I'm no expert in lute tablature, and by repeating that my immediate needs are met by what I now know how to ask LilyPond to do for me. But I think a typical example of what one might ideally achieve is at

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-09 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/9/12 6:09 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: On 5/9/12 8:01 AM, Choan Gálvez choan.gal...@gmail.com wrote: Nice. But... it still results in the same ugly (to me) vertical alignments: letters

Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-08 Thread Christopher Webster
Is there a recommended way of adjusting TabStaff output so that the note-heads (fret indications) appear _above_ rather than _on_ the lines representing the strings, please? This would make it more closely resemble English renaissance lute tablature, and I have a particular piece of

Re: Adjustment to tablature output

2012-05-08 Thread Choan Gálvez
On 5/8/12 10:48 , Christopher Webster wrote: Is there a recommended way of adjusting TabStaff output so that the note-heads (fret indications) appear _above_ rather than _on_ the lines representing the strings, please? This would make it more closely resemble English renaissance lute tablature,